So the theory goes, but backroom dealmakers always like to confound the theorists. |
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The management, medical staff, fitness guys and backroom staff have been magnificent. |
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If the Democrats weren't engaging in these backroom deal-making deals, I think they wouldn't mind the lights being turned on. |
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This isn't due to a sudden drop in average IQ levels, but to a secret backroom deal between lavvy manufacturers and environmentalists. |
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Sadly, the cronies and party hacks who now fill his Cabinet and backroom offices fall some way short of that ideal. |
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Since all affected parties had access to the information synthesised by the consultant there was hardly any danger of backroom deal-making. |
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Bertie led his team out onto the field only to discover the backroom team had not done their homework. |
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The subsequent departure in the same direction of his backroom adjutants Jim and Kevin intensified the bad feeling. |
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What we do not want is more delaying tactics, promises of announcements further down the track, cosy meetings and backroom deals. |
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The first encounter many will have with the diamond and precious gems industry will be in the plush backroom of a high-street jewellers. |
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The mayor could be independent of party politics, which would certainly cut through some of the backroom machinations. |
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It's become a legal morass, muddied by claims of incompetence and backroom deals. |
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Hoffman's tale of the oligarchs' rise through ehborate Ponzi schemes and backroom machinations is dizzying. |
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This has the earmarks of the sort of backroom politicking that has marked some of the darkest chapters in American history. |
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With three strong candidates in the running, many backroom organizers are predicting a heavy turnout for the election. |
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It took a lot of backroom heavy lifting and hand-holding in Congress on our part. |
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It would be better to rely on direct diplomacy and avoid backroom deals than to end up before the courts. |
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I firmly believe that this sleazy backroom deal is bad for Canada and bad for Saskatchewan. |
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Through backroom deals, it tried to get out of the anti-circumvention clause that it signed with Liberal support. |
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He is supporting a secret deal made in the backroom to hand over their government to a party that wants to destroy Canada. |
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I am writing to express my concern over the undemocratic backroom dealings that are being done in parliament. |
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It is important to keep people from thinking that there are secrets, favourites, backroom games. |
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Rather than placed in a backroom, the SATO printer is now located at the front table and it takes just 30 seconds to produce a new badge. |
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No doubt on their breaks these people will get together in the backroom, and they'll talk about the bizarro customers who refuse to give their zip codes. |
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In addition, there is a decades-long history of suspicion surrounding oil company operations in Alaska because of environmental damage and rumored backroom deal-making and political payoffs. |
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He wanted to slice through the pontificating speeches and backroom deal-making, the corrosive disagreements between the house and the senate, all of which paralyzed legislative action. |
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Many felt that Hosokawa's real promise, not so much of any particular reform, but of openness, fairness, and an end to backroom deal-making, had been betrayed. |
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Therefore to suggest that somehow this is a shady deal in the backroom is just simply inaccurate. |
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If they have the guts, they should go to the voters, not cook up backroom deals and talk nonsense that there is no stimulus. |
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But the Munster backroom boys don't believe it was a wasted journey. |
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Instant tweets make a mockery of the backroom deal-making essential to politics. |
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He said that wherever we can, we must put an end to backroom wheeling and dealing in politics. |
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I applaud the wordsmiths of the Liberal backroom who are listening intently to my remarks. |
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Hailed as revolutionary, it was indeed a refreshing change from the backroom deals that typify German capitalism. |
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They also ran the second-most important ad of the season, painting Quinn as a creature of a smoky backroom. |
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His dealings with players and backroom staff, along with his training regime and tactics, alienated, rather than inspired. |
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From virtual obscurity, they are summoned from the backroom and thrown into a frontline role for which they have little preparation. |
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There have been far too many parliamentary games, there's been far too much backroom dealing and double crossing. |
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It is unfortunate to see once again that it looks like the backroom boys who have been in charge of the political connections received the money. |
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The night before had seen the familiar backroom haggling over resolutions and composites, with the top table determined to tilt the playing field their way. |
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It was reminiscent of the old days of backroom politics and half-drunk reporters swaying against their typewriters. |
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I want Missourians to make a choice in this election based on policy, not backroom politics. |
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In our political system, presidents are not empowered to promise to launch wars in backroom negotiations with foreign leaders. |
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The tightly controlled choreography stirred the emotions while celebrating the unsung heroes of the backroom. |
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In a dim backroom of a mud hut in Save, 82-year-old Teresa Nyirabutunda sits propped upright in bed by her daughter, Francine. |
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The staff spend an average of six months concentrating on backroom duties and learning the basics before they are let loose on the company's clients. |
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I thought it would be hidden, out in the woods, or some kind of backroom deal. |
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Something made me turn back, I had to talk to the man who makes politicians, generals, statesmen, policy makers, backroom boys, show biz people squirm, simper, and sob. |
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The hollow spin of backroom politicos has cheapened political discourse, and journalists often compound this with lazy attempts at the appearance of balance. |
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As a backroom boy Jim admitted it was rare for him to step into the spotlight. |
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The first office was opened in a backroom, storefront on Cypress and West Broadway SE corner in Kitsilano, Vancouver. |
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Do not give me any guff about backroom deals. |
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A cooked up backroom deal will inevitably go sour. |
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Old political warhorses in Fredericton, Ottawa and everywhere else eventually realize that the jockeying of the backroom boys, the punditry of the press and the betting of the crowd are not enough to win today or tomorrow. |
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The codes of transparency and democracy which drove the Constitutional Convention were a good deal preferable to secretive summits, and backroom deals in the wee small hours of Thursday morning. |
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Happy to be a backroom boy, he marries Cathy, a typically charming Keira Knightley, and buries himself away in his Wall Street cover role. |
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The Nou Camp backroom boy has been thrust into the spotlight after Tito Vilanova headed to New York for cancer treatment. |
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After an initiation ceremony where wine laced with bodily fluids is drunk, there's dinner in the private backroom of a pub. |
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Chelsea keep a tight rein on any public statements from their backroom staff and they have previously refused any interview requests for Carneiro. |
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The third reason is that the leader of the Liberal Party is starting his own red green comedy show and is not running a candidate in Central Nova as a result of his backroom deal with the Green Party. |
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The Ahern government pumped billions of euros into cross-border projects while some of its backroom strategists talked about taking over the SDLP and advancing forwards as the main all-Ireland, 32-county party on this island. |
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Having said that, I do not believe a decision such as this should be made by a handful of hand-picked, biased, and backroom Supreme Court justices. |
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But this is mostly an account of backroom deals, broken promises and bungling government not to mention bitter partisanship. The great and well-known irony of Obamacare is that it is based on a Republican idea. |
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Coun Cruise called out the pettiness and backroom stitch-ups in a series of increasingly angry tweets. |
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In doing so, they moved scrutiny of China's human rights record away from the public, accountable processes of this Commission and into backroom discussions, which have no clear objectives or markers for measuring progress. |
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Six months on Bolton are last but one in the league and Lee has changed virtually the entire backroom staff that was responsible for much of Allardyce's success. |
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Nicky Henderson was crowned champion trainer for the first time in 26 years, but it was backroom boy Andrew Tinkler who proved the big Sandown winner. |
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Thanks to the power of television, the games of poker have emerged from their seedy backroom origins to the elegance of multimillion dollar hotels and tournaments. |
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He acted as her strategist and backroom boy and stood by his leader. |
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Gateshead have also signed former Magpie Neale McDermott, the son of former Newcastle, Liverpool and England midfielder, and United backroom boy, Terry McDermott. |
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And that will leave ex-Sunderland player and coach Bracewell and fellow Walsall backroom boy and former Carlisle midfielder Mick Halsall, to take charge of the squad. |
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Welsh Bafta-winning backroom boy Tim Ricketts, who makes sound effects for the show with Paul Jefferies, said that Kylie's decision was his proudest moment. |
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